Headlight



Apr; 3,1923.

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HEADLIGHT.

Application filed March 1?, 1922. Serial No. 544,459.

Be it known tlr't I, DAv'Io L. Davis, a resident of Norwalk, Fair-field County, State of Connecticut, and a citizen of the United States of America, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Headlights, of which the following is a specifica-.

' t'ion.

This invention relates to improvements-in m headlight devices for-automobiles, one of the objects being to provide a headlight structure arranged so that the headlights can be tilted downwardly, at the will of the driver, in order to take the glare out of the eyes of '15 the driver of an approaching ehicle, or for any other reason. My" improved device avoids the use of dimming. devices which at their best do not produce suflicient li safe driving. As my improved device avoids the use-of dimming devices, the, driver has plenty of light to see-the road when-the lights are tilted, at the same time taking the g are 'out of'the danger zone for an oncoming car or. other vehicle. 0r IWill now proceed to describe mv invenwill point out in the appended claim, referones being had to'the accompanying drawing, where-in I 30 a Fig, 1 is'a sectional view, -1llustrat1ng my improved. device-applied to an automobile,

2 1 Fig.2 is a fragmentary top-plan View; ..Fig. 3 is an enlarged-sectional detail view, the section being taken on a line 3-3 in Fig.

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Fig. 4: is a similar view, the section being the section being taken on a line 11,-in

"lit for i tion in detail, the novel features of which I bracket 16 carried by the frame member 17 of the vehicle. The shaft also carries an arm 18 connected by a link 19 to anarm 20 pivotally supported by a bracket 21 carried by the housin 22 for the steering post 23. The hub 24 or arm 20 carries a. handle 25. The inner end of hub 24 is faced with a disk 26 of" leather, fibre or the like. hearing against}; similar disk QT-carried by the bracket 21. The hub 2% is rocked upon a stud28 carrying a take-up-nut 29 by which means the two disks can be caused to contact with greater or less pressure; The disks 26 and 27 are designed to hold the arm 20' in adjusted positions. When handle 25 ismoved in the direction of the arrow 30, the lamp casingswillrbe tilted in the direction of the arrow 31. thereby causing the rays of light to be cast down upon the road, whereby glare will be taken out of the face of the driver of an approaching vehicle.

The disks 26 and 27-will hold the lamp cas ing in such tilted position until the handle 25 is manipulated to raise the lamps to normal position. The disks 26 and 27 will hold the lamps in any tilted position. The link 13 will be passed through the grid portion of the radiator 32. 4 p

- What. I desire to secure by Letters Patent In combination with a motor, vehicle having fenders, a rod extending transversely of the vehicle, means to secure said rod at each end to an adjacentfender, a carrier rotatably "supported by said rod, a pair of lamp-casings carried bythe rod, means whereby the lamp-casings may be adjusted relatively to said rod, a bracket carried by the'steering post of the vehicle, a. handle movably supported by said bracket and adapted, When manipulated, to further adjust said lampcasings, friction disks interposed between T the handle and the. bracket therefor, ar-

ranged to hold the handle in adjusted positions, and m'ea'ns to vary the pressure of one disk against the other.

' "DAVID L. DAVIS. 

